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Summer School Summer School - Decentring Europe: Doing History Otherwise, 1500-present Read more Summer School
Read more 5 October 2026 Thesis defence Department of History The Peasants Land Bank and Rural Society in Late Imperial Russia (1882–1920) Read more
Why history needs an intersectional perspective At the 2026 Yves Mény Annual Lecture Professor Benno Gammerl explored how intersectional perspectives and individual life stories can complement established narratives of German contemporary history and help us better understand the present. Read more Why history needs an intersectional perspective
Rethinking US sanctions in a globalised world, with Flavia Canestrini In this #EUIResearch interview, Max Weber Fellow Flavia Canestrini explores how the United States redesigned its sanctions policy to reconcile the demands of a globalised economy with its geopolitical ambitions. The interview reflects on what this shift reveals about the evolution of US power. Read more Rethinking US sanctions in a globalised world, with Flavia Canestrini
Graduate researchers explore new perspectives on European integration history A wide range of questions, sources, methods and perspectives characterised the work presented by early career scholars at the Alcide De Gasperi Centre’s Seventh Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration. Read more Graduate researchers explore new perspectives on European integration history
Giorgio Riello on the Florentine merchant who accidentally went around the world In this #EUIResearch interview, EUI Professor Giorgio Riello discusses 'Trading at the Edge of Empires', a new volume that uses the travel account of a Florentine merchant and slave trader to rethink the early modern world. Read more Giorgio Riello on the Florentine merchant who accidentally went around the world